I spent New Years Eve drinking tea and sewing. Design is an absolute experiment and combo of styles…
Tanya
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One kamik… two kamiik! Not perfect, but wearable so I’m sending my boy back to school with the gift of warm feet capable of moving easily through the snow.
After a to undo-redo, I have made progress!! One kamik is now formed (and size approved by the wearer). Next we need to figure out fabric for the duffle (any suggestions welcome, lol).
Today’s adventures in Christmasing… Canal building! Achieving streamflow was surprisingly satisfying.
Feeling thankful to now be safe and warm inside with 3/5 kids and knowing that the other two are also safe and warm although unable to travel home for the holiday.
We might not have a white Christmas, we we have a very white Christmas eve eve and (freezing rain notwithstanding), it is beautiful).
Sending good thoughts for anyone who is travelling or does not have a safe and warm place to be.
For today:
1. Pink walls!
2. Two teens up before noon and to help make the walls pink
3. One teen ready to move out of basement and into the light
This little pink bag had a busy week. It made it back to Vancouver from Colombia after it got separated from my oldest in New York.
Tomorrow I’ll send it on to her in Inuvik at which point it will have travelled bottom to top and left to right of continental North America unaccompanied and unused. 😆
Drove over the mountains today. It was beautiful and reminded me how much I really do miss the snow and cold.
I am not big on ceremony, but today I realized that they can serve as a time to reflect.
Five years ago my oldest was too shy to wear slippers made by her naanuk to her high school grad. Today she graduated as an RN and wore them with pride.
Today I had the chance to talk about a chapter I wrote about what I have learned about Agency and Reciprocity in digital education by sewing with my mother-in-law. It was lovely.
Chapter: https://edtechbooks.org/feminist_digital_ped/HDSZvECK
Agency and Reciprocity in Digital Education
In this chapter, I share the lessons I learned while sewing handmade kamiks with my mother-in-law, an Inuvialuk elder. Drawing on the work of Ursula Franklin, I compare the holistic technologies of sewing in communities with the prescriptive technologies of mass production used to produce boots. Using this boot-kamik analogy, I explore the dynamics of mainstream prescriptive technologies that normalize neoliberalism and a culture of compliance by adopting automation, algorithms, surveillance and data tracking throughout educational systems at a massive scale. I then consider how women-led indigenous knowledge systems and technologies, in the form of needles, sinews might challenge digital educators to pursue more holistic, smaller-scale alternatives that acknowledge situated context, enable reciprocity and value direct experience.